Most roses sold in the US are grafted onto one of several varieties of rootstock. The most common rootstock is probably Dr. Huey. If your rose was grafted, and you removed the plant below the grafting point, chances are your two little bushes are Dr. Huey and not the named variety you purchased. No easy way to tell until the plants bloom. You can check out Dr. Huey at helpmefind.com.

Evie -- There's a pretty good chance that your old plant was budded on 'Dr. Huey,'
a very vigorous once-blooming climber.
It's probable that your volunteer roses are not the rose you originally bought, but a pair of plants of 'Dr. Huey.'

At the link below, you can read about this rose. If you look at all of the photos (including the older ones) you'll get a pretty good idea what Huey foliage looks like.

While Huey was highly recommended early in the 20th Century, there are many better climbing roses now.
The blooms can be a very muddy color, it is a rampant grower, and it has disease issues in most places.

If you have 'Dr. Huey,' you would be ahead of the game to kill it now.

Jeri

Here is a link that might be useful: 'Dr. Huey' at HelpMeFind

The climber you dug out would have been grafted onto a rootstock variety and I'm almost positive that what you have are plants growing from leftover rootstock roots.

It's probably a variety called Dr. Huey, which is a red once-bloomer and can be grown as a shrub or climber.

Here is a link that might be useful: Dr. Huey information

I have a blaze I think someone might have pulled out or anyway I noticed some little rose leaves in the grass and in a couple years it has gotten about 4 ft. And that was after accidently mowing it once last spring.hopefully it will not be a rootstock.

Thanks for all your replies!!!! It does look like some of the photos of Dr. Huey. I was afraid it probably was the stock of a graft...it's gonna come out...

Len, I bet it's rootstock.
Go to the Dr. Huey page on HMF. Check the older photos, and you'll find detail shots of foliage, for comparison.

Jeri

evie4, I like vigorous once bloomers and think dr huey would do well at my place. If you haven't dug it out yet and are interested in a trade this
spring please email me.
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Spray it with Round Up. Obviously, you didn't get it all. Pull it out again, if necessary.

len511, If you decide to get rid of that hard to kill, vigorous growing, thornless, climbing, once bloomer that covers itself with beautiful dark red flowers every spring, named dr huey, email me. Maybe we can trade.

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I have a Fragrant Cloud that is determined to allow itself to be taken over by Dr. Huey rootstock. I don't like either of 'em, so if anyone wants a "free" Dr. Huey they are welcome to come on over to my place and haul this baby away.

There are a zillion reverted Dr. Hueys in Portland and they are very pretty here -- incredibly floriferous, and not muddy. I don't have enough room for a once bloomer or another dark red (not my fave), but I have to admit it's pretty in its moment.

The place where it really puts on a show is Las Vegas, NV.
In the early spring, in the older residential areas, you see it EVERYWHERE.

If you're ever there at the right time, be sure to go off the beaten path, and drive through the neighborhoods that flank the Strip, and run back toward Downtown.

Jeri

I'm pretty sure it's either blaze or Paul's scarlet climber, but I'm leaning more blaze, I had a photovon another forum a while back and a lady there who had 3 was pretty sure that's what it was and she also had dr. Huey's, and actually I think pretty close to every rose on the market,LOL.
I also have another seedling in adifferent area, in front of the house I'm waiting to see what it is, it has never bloomed yet, It might be a wild mf seedling though. It doesn't seem to grow as fast as I would think mf would.